Sheep Growing constituted New Mexico's leading industry for much of the territorial period and had been of major importance over the preceding two centuries, since the days of Spanish sovereignty. This work is a dedicated ...

Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles resulted in population isolation that led to inter- and intra- specific genetic divergence in many North American species. The magnitude of isolation also influenced species response ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the following: 1. What is the level of education in local anesthesia/pain control courses for dental hygiene programs in the United States. 2. Does the level of local ...

Various types of “food security” projects essentially deliver little in the way of real opportunities for local food security among Southeast residents in Grand Rapids, MI. Nonetheless, developers justifying their gentrifying ...

The aim of this dissertation is to discuss the theoretical and experimental work recently done with the Locking of Optical Coherence via Single-detector Electronic-frequency Tagging (LOCSET) phase locking technique developed ...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the concepts of praxis and locus as they pertain to teacher education practices and novice learning in the Denver Teacher Residency Program. The term locus was meant to ...

Concentrating solar thermal power tower plants with capacities of 100 MWe or greater require large heliostat fields with heliostats over 1,500 m (nearly a mile) away from the tower. The accuracy and performance of these ...

Uranium and neptunium desorption were studied in long-term laboratory experiments using four well-characterized volcanic tuff cores collected from southeast of Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The objectives of the experiments were ...

Ventricular enlargement in pediatric TBI is a common observation in clinical practice, yet volumetric studies of ventricle volume are sparse. In this study, MRIs and neuropsychological testing were performed on children ...

Infrared (IR) photodetectors are useful for a variety of military and civil applications
such as target acquisition, medical diagnostics, pollution monitoring, to name just a few. Presently photonic IR detectors are based ...

Given the call for change in medical school curriculum towards a more humanistic approach, it remains clear that there is an urgent need to study the effects of personal development classes on medical students‘ skill ...

This dissertation investigates how the Pueblo of Pojoaque went from near desertion to a community that in contemporary times (and with the assistance of nearby Tewa communities) has worked to retain its culture and art, ...

Synthesis and interpretation of archaeologically documented land-use patterns and ethnographic data are used to identify and model where people chose to live, hunt, and gather prehistorically. This project tests the ...

A large factor in the decision of using solar systems over readily available fossil fuels and other energy production methods is the upfront cost of solar systems. Therefore a potentially low cost energy harvesting device ...

This dissertation describes a series of three experiments focused on low electronic temperature transport and Coulomb drag in GaAs electron-hole bilayers. Electron-hole bilayers are of immense interest for exciton ...

A ridge-waveguide 1.55-μm semiconductor laser with a multiple-quantum-well carrier confinement structure was characterized from room temperature down to 10 K. The temperature dependence of important laser parameters, such ...

Based on their different reproductive modes and evolutionary history, extant mammals are divided into three lineages: eutherians, marsupials and monotremes. Marsupials are the closest relatives to eutherians. They are born ...

In this dissertation, a hierarchical interactive architecture for the future smart grid is proposed. This hierarchical architecture consists of different layers ranging from the households, microgrid controller level, ...

Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is a concrete that can flow under its own weight, easily filling forms with highly congested reinforcement. Due to its fresh properties, there has been growing interest in using SCC in ...